Charlotte Gray is an award–winning historian. A past recipient of the History Society's Pierre Berton Award, she is the author of several bestselling books, including Sisters in the Wilderness, A Museum Called Canada and Reluctant Genius, The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell. Ms. Gray is a full–time author and has written for many Canadian magazines, including Saturday Night, where she had a monthly column on national politics for eight years. She appears regularly as a political and historical expert on television and radio current–affairs panels. Ms. Gray is a graduate of Oxford University, and completed postgraduate work at the London School of Economics. She holds honourary doctorates from Mount St. Vincent University in Nova Scotia, University of Ottawa, Queen's University, and York University. An adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ms. Gray is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

W. John Bennett is Chairman of the Board of New Look Eyewear Inc. and C.E.O. and founder in 1991 of Benvest Holdings Ltd (“Benvest”), an investment holding company. He is an experienced merchant banker and private investor. Mr. Bennett had a long and distinguished career as an executive and investment banker at Scotia McLeod Inc. a major Canadian investment bank (now Scotia Capital Inc.). Prior to his retirement in 1989, he was Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of Scotia McLeod Inc.

Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum and award-winning author of several military history books, Tim Cook most recently completed The Madman and the Butcher, a double biography on Arthur Currie and Sam Hughes. Tim is also an adjunct professor at Carleton University. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918, Volume Two won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, Volume One, won the 2007 J.W. Dafoe Prize and the 2008 Ottawa Book Award.

Alex Graham is an investment banker  in Toronto. He advises a diversified group of issuing and advisory clients. Alex began his investment banking career in New York with Salomon Brothers Inc (now Citigroup) in 1986. Relocating to the UK in 1991, he was made head of European Equity Capital Markets for Salomon Brothers in 1994. Subsequently Mr. Graham headed ECM for BT Alex. Brown International and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette International both in London. From 2002 until joining Morgan Stanley in 2006, Mr. Graham worked for Citigroup in New York. A native of Ottawa, he graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario) in 1989, (MBA, with distinction) and from Trinity College (University of Toronto) in 1984 (BA History). Prior to becoming an investment banker, Alex worked for the Rt. Hon. John N. Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (1984-1985).

Paul Jones is a principal with TK Advisors Inc., a publishing consultancy with clients in Canada, the U.S. and Latin America. He retired in 2004 from the position of senior vice-president at Rogers Publishing after a 30-year career with Maclean Hunter and Rogers. He had also served as publisher of Maclean’s and as president & CEO of Canadian Business Media Ltd. and publisher of Canadian Business, PROFIT and MoneySense magazines. In addition to his impressive credentials within the magazine publishing industry he has a keen interest in family history and recently concluded a two-year term as chair of the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.

Popular historian, broadcaster and author of many books about Canadian history, Mr. Lacoursière has also been very involved in history education and curriculum development in the province of Quebec. He is a recipient of the Pierre Berton Award and more recently has accepted the role of guest editor of our Quebec 400th Anniversary issue of The Beaver to be published in Feb/March 2008.

Stéphane Lévesque is Associate professor of history education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa and Adjunct research professor at the University of Western Ontario. In addition to being author of many books, he is the director of the Virtual History Lab at the University of Ottawa and creator of the Virtualhistorian.ca, an innovative software to teach Canadian history. His research focuses on students’ historical thinking, Canadian history, citizenship education, and new media and technology in education.

Gillian Manning, CFA is Vice–President of TD Asset Management, a position she assumed in 2006 after serving for many years as an economist with TD Bank Financial Group. She has more than a decade of experience in the financial industry and was a frequent spokesperson on behalf of TD at public events with the media during her career with TD Economics. Prior to joining TD, Gillian was a researcher and editor at the University of Toronto, where she completed her graduate and undergraduate studies. A native Winnipeger, she holds a Master of Arts in Political Science (International Relations) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto and she is a CFA charterholder.

Long–time executive member of the International Olympic Committee, Mr. Pound is also a Montréal tax lawyer and chartered accountant. He has authored two books on Canada's legal history, Chief Justice W.R. Jackett: By the Law of the Land and Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, B.Sc. (social sciences, primarily economics), with both Scottish and Canadian CA designations as well as the Canadian FCA, David Ross has over 30 years of commercial experience with Deloitte & Touche, including 26 as a partner. He was elected by the partners to the Board of Deloitte Canada for eight years and served as Chair of both the Risk Committee and the Quality Committee of the board. Currently he is a Director of World Wildlife Fund Canada, Chairman of their Finance, Audit and Investment Committee, and a member of the Baycrest Finance and Audit Committee. As an auditor and consultant, Mr. Ross has extensive experience reporting to and advising boards and their audit committees on a broad range of accounting, auditing, internal control, systems, regulatory and governance matters, including personnel issues.

Currently the James McGill professor of history, Brian Young has taught at McGill since 1975. A founding member of the Montreal History Group, a research collective based in the History Department, Young's research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth–century Quebec elite. His publications range from the widely read text, co–authored with John Dickinson, A Short History of Quebecto his recent Respectable Burial: A History of Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery. He was recently awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship for his work Patrician Families in Lower Canada/Quebec, 1760–1840. He is a graduate of Queen's University, and a past board member of the McCord Museum and the Canadian Historical Association.

Following graduation from United College (now known as the University of Winnipeg) in 1959, with an honours Arts degree, Joseph E. Martin embarked on a varied and successful business career. He served as the Executive Assistant to the Honourable Duff Roblin, Premier of Manitoba. He completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program in 1983. He did senior consulting work for Touche Ross & Partners and retired in 1995 as Managing Partner of the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. Past president of the Manitoba Historical Society, Mr. Martin joined the Board of Canada's National History Society in 1994, and served three consecutive terms, stepping down from the Board in June 2003. Currently, he is Treasurer of the Ontario Historical Society.

Former Vice–President and Secretary of Hudson's Bay Company, it was Rolph Huband's vision, initiative and leadership that established the History Society and for which he was named Founding Chair in recognition of his contributions. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Huband held dual positions as Chairman of the Board of the History Society and Publisher of The Beaver, the publication with which he had been closely associated since 1960. He was responsible for the shift in focus from a magazine about the North to one of general Canadian history, which lead to an increase in The Beaver's circulation and visibility. In August 2003, Mr. Huband was appointed to the Order of Canada.

With the TD Bank Financial Group for over 20 years, Charles Baillie retired as Chairman in 2003. Charles Baillie has won numerous civic awards, including the 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the Ontario Library Association. In 2002, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws (Honorary) from Queen's University. He is a self–described “travel, nature and history buff,” and an avid reader of history and collector of antiquarian books.

Elsa Franklin was a unique phenomenon in the field of Canadian television, film and publishing for over forty years. In the sixties, she produced the record–breaking Pierre Berton Show dubbed “the program that comes to you from the major capitals of the world.” In addition to other successful television shows she created over the years, Ms. Franklin has also produced television documentaries for CBC and Global. Elsa Franklin was on the board of directors for McLelland & Stewart Publishing Ltd. and was active as a public relations consultant. She was the driving force behind the creation of the senior residence, Toronto–based, Performing Arts Lodges of Canada Foundation, built in 1993. She is Pierre Berton's literary agent and sits on the board of directors for the Berton House Writers' Retreat Society.

With a journalism career that has spanned five decades, he is currently senior contributing editor and regular columnist to Maclean's. He is a past recipient of the Pierre Berton Award.

Professor Symons, the founding President of Trent University in Ontario, is widely recognized nationally and internationally for his work in the field of Canadian Studies, in particular in the areas of public policy, heritage and education. For his commitment to and support of the Confederation Centre of the Arts (PEI), they named their annual lecture series The Symons Lecture on the State of Canadian Confederation.

An internationally acclaimed author, her most recent work, The Stone Carvers, was a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize. She has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, has been writer–in–residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and has held the Presidential Writer–in–Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto.